Events

In the face of a rapidly changing climate we will explore drivers that achieve multiple social, economic and environmental benefits. If recent events have anything to tell us lately; it’s that we are firmly planted in interrelationship with the web of life.

Amongst a myriad of converging crisis, we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. Invertebrate populations have decreased by 60% Species are becoming extinct 100 times faster than they would without human impacts. Populations of wild animals have more than halved since 1970, while the human population has doubled.

Biodiversity loss is one of the most pressing issues of our times. Plausibly the cause of a steep rise in infectious diseases that we are seeing across the globe - by way of pandemics from wild animals whose homes have been destroyed.

Our Speakers are Dr Anne Poelina, Prof Sarah Bekessy and Ann McGregor.

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We declared and committed, but are we effective?

There are multiple challenges and questions we face in our practices, but the most important of all is: how do we assess if our buildings actually mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss?

In this webinar we will look at an important certification method which claims to be most advanced worldwide – the Living Building Challenge by the International Living Future Institute.

The presentation will be complemented by a certified Australian case study the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre in Wollongong, designed by one of the signatories, Cox Architecture

The presentation will be complemented by a certified Australian case study, thein Wollongong, designed by one of the signatories, Cox Architecture.

Our Speakers are Helen Lochhead, outgoing National President of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), Laura Hamilton O’Hara, CEO of The Future Living Institute Australia and Joe Agius, Design Director of Cox Architecture

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Passive House as a responsible AND viable sustainable design option.

We will talk about principles and process of Passive House Design and present Gillies Hall, the largest Passive House certified building in the Southern hemisphere.

Clare Parry, Passive House certifier and one of the founders of Passive House Association of Australia will introduce principles and methods of Passive House Design. She will focus on its relevance to the Australian context and the delivery of Passive House certified buildings in Australia

Simon Topliss, Associate Director of Jackson Clements Burrows Architects will introduce Gillies Hall of Monash University. It is Australia’s first student accommodation built to Passive House standards and one of Australia’s largest cross laminated timber projects. No doubt, Gillies Hall is a comfortable, healthy and thermally consistent environment, that will function as a low energy and climate resilient multi-residential building into the future, delivering on the University’s aim for a net zero campus by 2030.

Completed in 2019, Gillies Hall has received a number of awards already and is shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Both Clare and Simon worked together on this exciting project which has the potential to lay the path for changing the way we design, deliver and operate our buildings.

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In presenting to Architects Declare, Paul Haar will introduce principles and methods, relevant for addressing our climate and biodiversity emergency, that have been applied to conceptualise and detail some of his projects, including self-help housing with remote indigenous Australians, Candlebark School Library, the Mullum Creek eco-housing project, and CERES Fair Wood. These case studies will highlight the overwhelming impact of building materials and building scale in this emergency.

Architect Paul Haar, who has long held passions for natural building materials, water and energy conservation, and community based building culture. For 40 years, his career as an architect has been focused on enriching rather than eroding the health of environmental and social systems.

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The Architects Declare Brisbane Meetup #002

Speakers included: Liz Brogden, Emma Healey, Paul Matthew, Matt Seddon, Laura Pascoe & Suzie Wiley.

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